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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 5:13 PM EDT. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2016, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
119
WWUS81 KBOX 062113
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
513 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
CTZ003-004-062200-
WINDHAM CT-TOLLAND CT-
513 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN TOLLAND COUNTY...
AT 512 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
BOLTON...OR NEAR MANCHESTER CONNECTICUT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL, WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH, AND LOCALLY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANSFIELD...WINDHAM...WILLIMANTIC...COVENTRY...HEBRON...BROOKLYN...
COLUMBIA...CANTERBURY...BOLTON...ANDOVER...CHAPLIN...
HAMPTON AND SCOTLAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GET INDOORS WHEN THIS STORM APPROACHES. WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO
PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE...SUCH AS A FEW DOWNED BRANCHES.
&&
LAT...LON 4181 7199 4167 7202 4169 7221 4171 7224
4170 7225 4169 7227 4171 7246 4179 7247
TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 270DEG 27KT 4175 7244
$$
FIELDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 22 min |
| Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Worcester | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 49 min | |
| Aug 6, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 42 min | |
| Aug 6, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 55 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.